just thinking about that time the wakandans said to bucky listen you are on THIN ice and you better not come round here any time soon and then he said ok but can you make my crush this little outfit real quick. the audacity. like the ONLY thing on his mind was sam wilson. phew.

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Criminal Defense attorney, Greg Doucette has had quite enough of your non-sense.

The way he twirls the knife as he fights, it’s so obvious he’s had years of training. Years of killing. It’s natural to him while something as easy as human speech and emotion is foreign to him. It shows how Hydra treated him like a war machine rather than a human.

Gonna have to disagree with this. Yes, you’re completely correct about the way he fights. It’s completely natural, but there’s nothing we see that says he doesn’t talk or feel emotion.

When Steve calls him ‘Bucky’, he doesn’t speak with a voice that sounds unused, he speaks easily and colloquially–’Who the hell is Bucky?’

He doesn’t just look puzzled or grunt out a partial question. It’s fluid, it’s normal and it’s in the syntax of a man who’s verbally at ease.

He gives the Hydra soldiers orders with equal ease in Russian. Not only is he at ease with human speech, he’s at ease in multiple languages.

We also see him feeling emotion. He feels when Natasha shoots him in they eye, breaking his goggles. He feels when she immobilizes his arm. He feels when Steve stops him from killing Natasha and they fight. He feels when he remembers Steve–to the point that his brain is so busy trying to put the pieces together that everything Pierce says to him feels unimportant. He feels when he falls on the helecarrier, and feels even more when he’s trapped and thinks Steve will kill him as he lies there.

Yes, the Winter Soldier is all about self control. He understands the value of fear as a weapon. He understands that not letting your enemies see what you’re thinking and feeling gives you an advantage, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t feel, or is a machine. It means that he’s very good at his job and very used to controlling the stray thoughts and memories that (if his actor is correct) frequently go thorough his mind, inexplicable and distracting.

To consider the Winter Soldier a machine removes the most poignant part of his story–that while Bucky had no memories of who he’d been, he was still there. He wasn’t a machine, a computer programmed to kill. He was a man whose mind was so twisted that he wanted to do it. 

They weren’t overwriting him with a new personality, they were continually wiping resurfacing memories of who he’d been and the values he’d had. They were erasing choices he made as the Winter Soldier while on missions, because learning from past choices and results is how we form individuality and personal ethics. They were making sure his loyalties didn’t change from the one’s they’d given him, because he was capable of both having them and change.

Pierce speaks of ‘one last mission’ because they didn’t plan on him surviving Washington, so apparently controlling him had become more trouble than it was worth, which is really saying something, given his level of skill.

The tragedy of the Winter Soldier isn’t that he was an unfeeling machine–it’s that he wasn’t.

Excellent read and I agree with @bridge-agent on most of this except the ‘one last mission’ part. In my opinion it’s not his last mission because he’s difficult to control or became too much trouble to control. It was for a much simpler reason, should the Winter Soldier complete his “last mission”: Hydra would then have three Helicarriers in the sky to do what they needed the Winter Soldier for and would be much more effective than him at the job. (Aka taking out MILLIONS of those that Hydra deems unworthy at a time.) Hence, the upgraded weapon takes over and they need to wipe out the old with the new.

Hydra’s aim was never to permanently keep the one codenamed as Winter Soldier around. Yes, Hydra wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without the decades of sending the Winter Soldier out to do its dirty work but even Hydra’s best asset (aka proved the most useful) is disposable to Hydra.

Sigh

Watch they find a reason to prevent this process.

I can’t believe in fucking 2015 we have to find such “tricks” everytime we get any contact with the police.

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